Top-brace for buggies



(No Model.)

A. B. DAVIS.

TOP BRAGE FOR BUGGIES.

No. 286,272. Patented Oct. 9, 18.83..

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ALEXIS B. DAVIS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

TOP-BRACE FO'R BUGGIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,272, dated October 9, 1883.

Application filed ApriL 27, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALEXIS B. DAVIS, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Top-Braces of Buggies, &e., of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being-had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My improvement applies to the jointed braces that extend from how to bow to hold them asunder.

The scope of the invention is set forth in the claim.

Figure 1 is a side view of a buggy-top with part of the cover removed, showing my improved brace between the rear bow and the lovv next to it. Fig. 2 is a view of the top folded back. Fig. 3 is an enlarged side view ofthe improved brace extended; and Fig. 4 is a similar view, except that the brace is folded. Fig. 5 is an enlarged top view of the brace eX- tended. Figs. 6 and 7 are details, showing the construction of the bracejoints.

A is the buggy-seat. B B B B are, respectively, the first, second, third, and fourth bows of the top, (beginning at the front.) 0 is the top-prop pin, and D the top-prop brace. E is the brace extending from the first to the third bow to hold them asunder. the usual construction, and are outside the top, being connected to the seat and bows by pins projecting from the same, so that the braces are outside the plane of the bow sides. The brace F is in the plane of the sides of the bows l3 and B and is concealed between the cover G and the cover-lining H, except as to the handle F, which can be seen below the These parts have edge of the cover-lining, so as to be easily reached. This brace F has the usual rule joint, I, except that the joint is made by casting a pintle-pin, J, upon one member of the brace, which passes through a hole, F, in the other member, and is secured by riveting the end. Pintle-pins J are also cast on the ends 4 5 of both members, which pass through hingeholes L in the bracket-lugs K and L, by which the ends of the brace F are connected to the bows B and B respectively. The lug K is attached by screws or rivets 70 to the rear edge of the bow B", and the lug L issimilarly attached to the front edge of the l1i ncL ibw, E-i The construction is such that the brace extends very little, if at all, beyond the inner or outer face of the bows, (being in the same plane as the parts of the bows to which it is attached.) Thus it causes no projection of the top or cover G, nor of the coverlining H, and these parts form no obstruction to its movement in extending it or folding it. 6o\,

My improvement is shown applied to the bows Bi and B. It is obvious it may be applied to the other bows, if desired.

I claim as my invention-'- A top-brace having two members, F, one member having two pintles cast thereon and the other member havinga single pintle and handle cast thereon, and an eye to engage the inner pintle of the other member, in combination with lugs having eyes and secured to the inner edges of the bows, asset fchth.

AL axis n1 Davis.

W'i tnesses:

/ SAML. KNIGHT,

GEO. H. KNIGHT. 

